Tap water · NM
Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority
EPA system ID NM3510701 · serves about 560,326 people. Every US utility must publish an annual water quality report — here’s the official one (2025), and below it, our plain-English translation.
Read the official report →What Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority found in 2025
47 detected analytes from the utility’s own annual report, hand-normalized — nothing was near or over a federal health-based limit.
| Detected | Level | Limit | % of limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine (highest of multiple sources) | 1.6 PPM | 4 PPM | 40% | Within limit |
| Nitrate | 3.47 PPM | 10 PPM | 35% | Within limit |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) | 27.5 PPB | 80 PPB | 34% | Within limit |
| Copper (90th percentile) | 0.28 PPM | 1.3 PPM | 22% | Within limit |
| Uranium | 6 PPB | 30 PPB | 20% | Within limit |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | 10.2 PPB | 60 PPB | 17% | Within limit |
| Fluoride | 0.46 PPM | 4 PPM | 12% | Within limit |
| Gross Alpha Particle Activity | 1.6 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L | 11% | Within limit |
| Radium 226 + 228 | 0.5 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L | 10% | Within limit |
| Lead (90th percentile) (highest of multiple sources) | 1.4 PPB | 15 PPB | 9% | Within limit |
| Total Coliform | 0.41 % | 5 % | 8% | Within limit |
| Barium | 0.064 PPM | 2 PPM | 3% | Within limit |
| Total Xylenes | 0.001 PPM | 10 PPM | 0% | Within limit |
| Arsenic | 0 PPB | 10 PPB | 0% | Within limit |
| Lithium — 2024 monitoring | 34 PPB | — | — | No federal limit |
| Sodium (highest of multiple sources) | 33 PPM | — | — | No federal limit |
| Total Organic Carbon | 1.4 PPM | — | — | No federal limit |
| E. coli | 0.41 % | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorohexane Sulfonic Acid (4:2 FTS) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorohexanesulfonic Acid (PFHxS) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorohexanoic Acid (PFHxA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorononanoic Acid (PFNA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (6:2 FTS) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid (PFOS) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluoropentanesulfonic Acid (PFPeS) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluoropentanoic Acid (PFPeA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorotetradecanoic Acid (PFTA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorotridecanoic Acid (PFTrDA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluoroundecanoic Acid (PFUnA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Chloroeicosafluorooxaundecanesulfonic Acid — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Chlorohexadecafluorooxanonanesulfonic Acid — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Dioxaperfluorononanoic Acid (ADONA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Ethyl Perfluorooctanesulfonamidoacetic Acid — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Hexafluoropropylene Oxide Acid (GenX) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Methyl Perfluorooctanesulfonamidoacetic Acid — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Nonafluoro-3,6-dioxaheptanoic Acid (NFDHA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluoro(2-ethoxyethane)sulfonic Acid — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluoro-3-methoxypropanoic Acid (PFMPA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluoro-4-methoxybutanoic Acid (PFMBA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorobutanesulfonic Acid (PFBS) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorobutanoic Acid (PFBA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorodecane Sulfonic Acid (8:2 FTS) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorodecanoic Acid (PFDA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorododecanoic Acid (PFDoA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluoroheptanesulfonic Acid (PFHpS) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluoroheptanoic Acid (PFHpA) — 2024 monitoring | 0 PPT | — | — | No federal limit |
Levels and limits are as printed in the utility’s report (“limit” is the EPA MCL, action level, residual limit, or secondary guideline that applies to that row; “ND” = not detected). Utilities publish these reports annually — we re-check every covered utility each July, after the federal publication deadline. Detected doesn’t mean dangerous — most detections sit far below their limits. This is education, not medical advice.
Your tap, if it were a bottle
How Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority water stacks up against the bottled aisle
Same minerals, same units — the tap values below come from the utility’s report, placed next to the closest match in our bottled-water database.
| Mineral | Your tap | Closest bottled match |
|---|---|---|
| Sodium | 33 mg/L | San Pellegrino at 32 mg/L |
Tap values are the headline levels from the utility’s annual report (often a highest or average figure); bottled values are label- or report-derived. A closest match is a numeric comparison, not an equivalence or an endorsement.
Zip codes covered
87102 · 87104 · 87105 · 87106 · 87107 · 87108 · 87109 · 87110 · 87111 · 87112 · 87113 · 87114 · 87120 · 87121 · 87123
Boundary zips partially served by other systems are deliberately unlisted — check your exact zip.